How many times have you gone in to ult when your passive has already popped? Are you going to wait around for it to build up again or are you going to leave Malphite hanging after he's ultied in? Makes that decision easier at least.

And making his combo smoother isn't a bad thing...Makes him more fun to play.

^ This will hurt him a bit (which is what was intended from release), the big reason people think he's so 'OP' is because 95% of Yasuo's rush Shiv, which allowed him to capitalize on his crit allowing him to get fed so easily.

With the decrease going on you'll see people lose interest since it will be harder to snowball with him.

He's pretty clunky early (as far as burst). Given I have to take him top a lot because people tend to want mid so my point of comparison is trying to kill beefy opponents, I have trouble early in lane. Playing against people like Garen, Riven, Darius, etc. who do a lot more damage with a combo than I can I find that I tend to fall behind early. On the other hand, once I pick up Hydra and statik shiv I feel like Yasuo can't be stopped. He does so much damage and has some killer cc if he can land the q knockup. I think his issue is more of a weak early game into op level late game.

Once again this is based on my experiences top and mid may be quite different as he deals with squishier opponents and can block a lot of the main mids' damage through his w. In that case I can see him snowballing earlier and become unstoppable...